The Handless Maiden (Sold)

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The story of “The Handless Maiden” is about a woman’s initiation into the underground forest through the rite of endurance. The word endurance sounds as though it means “to continue without cessation,” and while this is an occasional part of the tasks underlying the tale, the word endurance also means “to harden, to make sturdy, to make robust, to strengthen,” and this is the principal thrust of the tale, and the generative feature of a woman’s long psychic life. We do not just go on to go on. Endurance means we are making something substantial. Text from Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes